HELP! Template is gone from blog!

whats wrong is that you cant change those settings arbitrarily – they actually mean something.

Look at the source of the page you linked to:

What do you see?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://www.unplugyourkids.com/wp-content/themes/wp-andreas01-12/style.css" />

There is the path to your stylesheet.

Youve messed with those options and now theyre pointing to the wrong place.

If you want visitor to see your blog just at https://www.unplugyourkids.com/blog then both your WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) should be set to https://www.unplugyourkids.com/blog

If you want vistors to see your blog at https://www.unplugyourkids.com then your WordPress address (URL) should be https://www.unplugyourkids.com/blog and your Blog address (URL) should be https://www.unplugyourkids.com and this index.php file should be in your web-root folder:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

That last setup is described at: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

If you can’t login to change your Options then this will help:
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

MichaelH-

I copied the index.php file into my root directory (public_html) and made the change as explained by you and the codex.

I now have the following settings:

WP-URL: https://www.unplugyourkids.com/blog
Blog URL: https://www.unplugyourkids.com

That caused some progress since https://www.unplugyourkids.com now goes to my blog, but there is still no stylesheet.

Also, the codex said to log in the new way, which I think should be: https://unplugyourkids.com/blog/wp-admin/, but I get an “Error 404 Page Not Found.”

(All the WP files were already in their own subdirectory entitled “blog”)

Whooami-

Yeah, I know. It is dumb to mess with what you don’t understand, but I thought I was helping things!

I see now that the stylesheet path is wrong. The WP folders are all in the subdirectory “blog.” Should I change the path? But why wouldn’t unplugyourkids.com/blog/wp-admin take me to the admin page since the admin files are indeed in the subdirectory “blog?”

As you can see, I know just enough to mess things up!

https://unplugyourkids.com/blog/wp-login.php is your login URL

If you can login, change to the WordPress Default Theme to see if you get a working blog.

Michael,

I logged in but it took me to the “Error 404 page not found” page. Also, the login screen looks weird and is without anykind of template or formatting either.

Also-I had to use Username “admin” and the password that was sent to me from WP. It wouldn’t take my usual username and pass.

OK-it let me log in when I did it the old way:

https://74.52.60.18/~marybun/blog/wp-login.php

All is still without any kind of color or theme, but at least I am at the control panel.

I tried to change to the Default Theme and it said I did, but there is still no theme on the blog.

HOORAY! It’s back!

When I checked the options page, I thought I had put https://www.unplugyourkids.com/blog for the WP-URL, but I actually had https://www.unplugyourkids.com for both URLs. When I changed the WP-URL to the correct one, I had to log in again then everything went back to normal.

Thanks so much for the help! I really appreciate your time!

Hi – I’m having a similar problem to momunplugged, but I get to my login screen, and it then redirects me to what it thinks is the new location of the blog.

In effect – I can’t get to my configuration screen anymore. Any ideas?